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Tardieu: Internationalizer

Of all Americans perhaps Herbert C. Hoover has achieved a career most aptly comparable to that of Andre Tardieu in France. Both served during the War among an alien people, disbursing unstinted millions with prodigal but discriminating hands. Perhaps not everyone knows that M. Tardieu, as French High Commissioner to the U. S. spent three and a half billions of dollars upon purchases of War stuffs within two years.

At present, MM. Hoover and Tardieu find themselves respectively U. S. Secretary of Commerce...

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